{"id":1219,"date":"2009-04-19T08:49:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T00:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2009-04-19T08:54:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T00:54:06","slug":"we-didnt-start-the-flame-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/19\/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war\/","title":{"rendered":"We didn&#8217;t start the flame war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>omg! it&#8217;s just like teh internats, lol:<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/moogaloop\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1907543&#038;fullscreen=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" ><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"AllowScriptAccess\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"movie\" quality=\"best\" value=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/moogaloop\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1907543&#038;fullscreen=1\"\/><\/object><br \/>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videosift.com\/video\/We-Didn-t-Start-the-Flame-War\" title=\"We Didn't Start the Flame War\">videosift.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Predictable, but on the mark.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to write something about how &#8220;Internet culture&#8221; is incredibly immature, low-brow, and homophobic. Then I figured that it&#8217;s just a plain reflection of the personalities of the people on the Internet (or at least how they act when online).<\/p>\n<p>Group mentality goes to a whole new level when you engage millions of people. Not a new thing mind you: that&#8217;s &#8220;culture&#8221; right? It just happens so quickly online. Internet &#8220;memes&#8221; can emerge overnight, but IRL &#8220;trends&#8221; are marked as seasonal, annual, or by decades.<\/p>\n<p>(Hmmm&#8230; there are probably too many quotation marks in this post.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>omg! it&#8217;s just like teh internats, lol: via videosift.com Predictable, but on the mark. I was going to write something about how &#8220;Internet culture&#8221; is incredibly immature, low-brow, and homophobic. Then I figured that it&#8217;s just a plain reflection of the personalities of the people on the Internet (or at least how they act when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/19\/we-didnt-start-the-flame-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We didn&#8217;t start the flame war&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-jF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1226,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}